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As the awareness about environment and ecology is spreading worldwide, more and more organizations have been adopting advanced solutions for reducing their use of paper and manual processes. It enables the enterprises to contribute their share towards the conservation of environment, as well as helps them save considerable amount of money.

IntelliChief LLC, a provider of Paperless Process Management or ‘PPM’ (News - Alert) solutions for the IBM I Enterprise comprising of System i, iSeries and AS/400, has announced that it has been selected by Peterson Manufacturing Company to enhance its productivity across various department operations.

Claiming long experience and relationships with a number of ERP software vendors, the company has been offering its services to enable enterprises in getting paperless at lower costs. Leveraging its solutions and services, companies can create, capture, manage, archive, retrieve, and distribute their vital documents right from within their ERP applications.

Based in Grandview, Missouri, the Peterson Manufacturing Company is a manufacturer of a comprehensive range of vehicle safety lighting, mirrors, reflectors, antennas and related products. The company has decided to deploy IntelliChief’s services so that it can considerably cut down the overall use of paper, reduce the costs involved and also streamline the operations.

The Paperless Process Management solutions by IntelliChief can be seamlessly integrated with Infor LX, the ERP software being used by Peterson Manufacturing. It will allow the employees of Peterson Manufacturing to quickly find and retrieve their documents electronically, and moving into a paperless environment subsequently.

“When evaluating document management vendors, we wanted software that was not only going to help us drive productivity and reduce costs, but we wanted a solution that was going to be easy to use,” commented Rick Stephens Jr., corporate director of Information Technology at Peterson Manufacturing Company. “As the Paperless Processing Management leader, IntelliChief was the nearly unanimous choice of our user community. We believe that as we move forward and standardize on IntelliChief, we will notice how easy it is to take advantage of vendor discounts and eliminate double payments using electronic workflow.”

Before finally selecting the solution by IntelliChief for implementation within its process, Peterson Manufacturing carried out a comprehensive analysis to decide which solution will be fulfill its requirements most suitably. Once the company began familiarizing itself with the IntelliChief solution, it realized the gains it achieved by eliminating the cost associated with paper and manual tasks, which are now smartly completed through IntelliChief.

In November 2011, IntelliChief LLC announced to promote its Integration Module to the JD Edwards World application. This enables the creation and capture of key business documents electronically, and makes them available directly from a user’s desktop computer and JD Edwards World application screens.

Arvind Arora is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Arvind's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Juliana Kenny

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